YCU God Checking Nature

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

"'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.

Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.

As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.

"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

"This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."

For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."

Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."

Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."

Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."

For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."

This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But God raised him from the dead,

"Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

"To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.